Neil Morrissey

There was a...

I pro- I think I've mentioned it before, but there was a, an old film called Up and Under with, uh, Samantha Janus, and Neil Morrissey is in it from, um, Men Behaving Badly, and they're pl- It's a rugby league film basically, and they...

Neil Morrissey score, uh, breaks through.

He's the fastest player on the pitch, and he's on his own, and he's breaking, and he can score into the post, and he veers off and scores in the corner.

And they go, "Why didn't you go into the post? You made the conversion much harder." "I scored a try.

Was Paul Merton in Men Behaving Badly originally? He was never in Men Behaving Badly.

Who was in Men Behaving Badly before Neil Morrissey? Yeah, because I'm looking at this as they...

This is basically Men Behaving Badly, but set around the World Cup.

Yeah.

Listen to these names.

Rowan Atkinson, Jonathan Pryce, Alec Guinness, Ben Kingsley, Barry Humphries, AKA Dame Edna, Neil Morrissey, uh, and George C. Scott, Richard Dreyfuss, Jonathan Roxmouth.

All people who, well, in Jonathan's case are about to, but everybody else has played Fagin in either film, television series, or stage musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' wonderful novel.

We have a production coming our way at the end of the year, starting at Artscape on the 11th of December.

Such a nice guy.

I got to talk to Neil Morrissey, also such a charming guy.

I did not get to talk to Philippa.

I really wanted to, but I knew that she was a bit more reserved and not the mayor of the area like Martin was.

I've got the, I brought the souvenir program here so we could, what did we have here? We had the fluffiest, scruffiest, right? Awesome party trick.

The dog who

looks most like Neil Morrissey.

Yep.

It's very, very hard to get right, and it's very easy to get wrong.

If you don't believe me, look at Run for Your Wife, in which the joke about, you know, Neil Morrissey s- is it Neil Morrissey? Whichever Morrissey it is, sits on a cake and, you know, Danny Dyer stands on a rake.

That's badly done slapstick, and it's really, really not funny.

But good slapstick is brilliant.

Yes.

Neil, Neil Morrissey is round.

[laughs]

Martin Clunes is flat.

Do you remember this scene?

I, I c- I can picture Neil Morrissey doing this, yeah.

He tr- So he ties the string to the tooth to the door handle, and he slams the door, and it doesn't work.

So he has to do it again.